posted June 22, 2020 11:53 PM            

The Chamber of Commerce was dealt a blow on Monday after failing to convince President Donald Trump not to prioritize unemployed Americans for U.S. jobs over imported foreign visa workers.

On Monday, Trump expanded an executive order to halt the H-1B, H-4, H-2B, L-1, L-2, and J-1 visa programs while more than 40 million Americans are unemployed and underemployed.

Altogether, along with regulatory reforms to asylum loopholes and the H-1B visa program, the move is expected to free up about 600,000 U.S. jobs for Americans that would have otherwise been filled by foreign visa workers.

In a statement, Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue said prioritizing Americans for U.S. jobs over foreign visa workers “won’t help our country” and declared a “new level of urgency” to fight Trump on the issue:.....

http://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/22/chamber-of-commerce-new-level-of-urgency-for-mass-immigration/